High school track and baseball updates
Bishop England and Hanahan, two of the Lowcountry’s premier track and field programs, will be well represented at Saturday’s Class AAA Lower State Championships, which will be held at Richland Northeast High School.
Both teams fared well in the recent 6-AAA meet, the first step toward the State Championships, which will be held May 12-13 at Spring Valley’s Harry Parone Stadium.
The Hawks’ Quincy Mitchell swept the sprint events at the region meet, winning the 100-meter dash (10.90), the 200-meter dash (22.55) and the 400-meter dash (51.57).
Hanahan also swept the relay races, winning the 400x100-, 4x400- and 4x800-meter relays.
Other first-place finishers for the Hawks included Jamie Wilson (shot put), Jamie Watson (high jump), Noah Ward (1,600-meter run) and Brett Kelly (3,200-meter run).
First-place finishers for Bishop England included Adam Richter (800-meter run) Jacob Wilkins (discus) and Luke Vettel (pole vault).
In the girls’ meet, Bishop England’s Emma Albano, Emma Lawrence and Allison Seney all won two individual events.
Albano won the shot put (31-21/2) and discus (103-11) while Lawrence captured first in the 800 (2:30.00) and 1,600 (5:59.04). Seney won the 100-meter hurdles (16.17) and the pole vault (9-0).
The Bishops won the 1,600 and 3,200 relays.
Camryn Deames won the 3,200 and Mary Grace Furnachik captured gold in the high jump.
Hanahan’s Tiara Daniels won the 400 dash.
BE BASEBALL
The Bishop England baseball team used some outstanding pitching to capture the Class AAA District 7 baseball championship.
The Bishops allowed only four runs in three games to sweep the bracket play.
They opened play with a 6-2 victory over Loris and then topped Brookland-Cayce 2-1. Brookland-Cayce advanced from the loser’s bracket to face the Bishops again, but BE proved to be too much, posting a 4-1 victory.
The Bishops begin Lower State Championship play Thursday, hosting District 6 champion Waccamaw. Waccamaw advanced with a 3-0 victory over Strom Thurmond.
Hanahan went 0-2 in District 5 play. The Hawks dropped a 5-4 decision to Aynor and were eliminated when Gilbert posted a 3-0 victory in an elimination game.